3284521 - Off Cycle Event Batch for Job Information: Forward Propagation post 2H 2022

The Off Cycle Event Batch (OCEB) for Job Information now (2H 2022 release onwards) considers only the current active records of employees by default. This prevents creation of duplicate records in the system. This enhancement may impact how forward propagation used to work in Job Information when OCEB is involved. 

• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
• Off Cycle Event Batch
• Forward Propagation
• Job Information

Pre 2H 2022 release scenario:

In this example, the option Include Only Current Record is set to No for the OCEB.

User1 has the following set of Job Information records as of 22/12/2022:

Event Date	Event	Designation	Business Unit	Division
1/1/2000	Hire	Supervisor	BU1	Div1
4/12/2022	Data Change	Supervisor	BU2	Div2
31/12/2022	Promotion	Lead	BU2	Div2

OCEB with Job Information base object runs on 22/12/2022 to update BU2 to BU3 and Div2 to Div3. This will create 2 records as of 22/12/2022 as shown in the following table:

Event Date	Event	Designation	Business Unit	Division
1/1/2000	Hire	Supervisor	BU1	Div1
4/12/2022	Data Change	Supervisor	BU2	Div2
22/12/2022	Data Change (Sequence 1)	Supervisor	BU3	Div3
22/12/2022	Data Change (Sequence 2)	Supervisor	BU3	Div3
31/12/2022	Promotion	Lead	BU2	Div2

Here Seuence 2 record compares Business Unit and Division data between the previous record with Sequence 1 and the future record with effective date 31/12/2022. Since these 2 records' data don't match, forward propgation does not take place.

Post 2H 2022 release scenario:

Post 2H 2022 release, the option Include Only Current Record is universally set to Yes. 

User1 has the following set of Job Information records as of 22/12/2022:

Event Date	Event	Designation	Business Unit	Division
1/1/2000	Hire	Supervisor	BU1	Div1
4/12/2022	Data Change	Supervisor	BU2	Div2
31/12/2022	Promotion	Lead	BU2	Div2

OCEB with Job Information base object runs on 22/12/2022 to update BU2 to BU3 and Div2 to Div3. This will create only 1 record as of 22/12/2022 as shown in the following table:

Event Date	Event	Designation	Business Unit	Division
1/1/2000	Hire	Supervisor	BU1	Div1
4/12/2022	Data Change	Supervisor	BU2	Dvi2
22/12/2022	Data Change	Supervisor	BU3	Div3
31/12/2022	Promotion	Lead	BU3	Div3

Here the record with effective date 22/12/2022 compares Business Unit and Division data between previous record with effective date 4/12/2022 and the future record with effective date 31/12/2022. Since these 2 records' data are identical, forward propgation takes place.

If customers don't want the forward propagation to take place, they can control it by not selecting the following permission: Enable Forward Propagation during Incremental Import in Employee Central Import Settings RBP table. 

What's New Viewer: Off Cycle Event Batch for Job Information Includes Only Current Active Records

Off Cycle Event Batch

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